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(No Model.)

P. K. WRIGHT. WIGK RAISER ATTACHMENT FOR LANTBRNS.

No. 476,506. Patented June '7, 1892.

7zln asses Y Way h-Z; Ina/612%? NITED STATES I FFIC FREDERICK K. .VRIGHT, OF SYRACUSE, NETV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE STEAM GAUGE AND LANTERN COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WICK-RAISER ATTACHMENT FDR LANTERNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letterszf'atent No. 476,506, dated June '7, 1892.

Application filed February 3, 1892. Serial No. 420,158. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern; the loops. Upon introducing the collar into Be it known that I, FREDERICK K. TVRIGHT, the flange, so that the pins enter the loops, a citizen of the United States, residing at Syraand then turning the collar the pins enter the cuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of slots, thereby fastening the bottom to the New York, have invented a new and useful body in the manner of a bayonet-joint. ImprovementinTViclrRaiserAttachmentsfor H represents a spring-catch, whereby the Lanterns, of which the following is a specificollar is held in its locked position in the cation. flange. This spring is arranged against the This invention relates to a lantern in which outer side of the flange and secured thereto IO the wick is raised or lowered by a rotative with one end, while its opposite end is promovement of the oil-pot carrying the wickvided with an opening h, which receives one raiser shaft. of the pins when the body is fastened to the lleretofore the bottom of the lantern was bottom and prevents the latter from becomrigidly secured to the body thereof and the ing accidentally detached. Although I pre- 15 oil-pot was secured to the bottom by springfor this well-known construction of a fastencatches, so that the oil-pot carrying the wicking for securing the body to the bottom, any raiser shaft could be turned in the bottom other suitable fastening may be employed and also be detached therefrom. This conwhich will hold the parts securely together. struction is objectionable because the oil-pot 1 represents the rotatable oil-pot, which is zobeconies frequently detached, owing to the arranged loosely with its lower portion in a weakening of the spring-catches. circular opening formed in the bottom. The

The object of my invention is to overcome oil-pot is held against vertical movement in this difficulty and to combine the desirable the bottom bybeads ii, formed on the oil-pot features of arotatable oil-pot provided with a above and below the bottom. The central 2 5 wick-raiser attachment and a lantern-bottom opening in the bottom is provided with a marwhich is detachably secured to the body by a ginal flange t and made large enough to perreliable lock. mit the oil-pot, with its beads, to be passed In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is through the same until the annular groove i an elevation of a lantern provided with my between the beads is in line with the flange 0 improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation i of the bottom. This flange is then bent or thereof. Figs. 3 and at are horizontal secturned into the groove between the beads,

tions in lines or a: and y 3 Fig. 2. thereby permanently securing the oil-pot to Like letters of reference refer to like parts the bottom. The lower end of the oil-pot is in the several figures. preferably provided with an annular row of 5 A represents the lower collar or ring of a projectionsj, which permitthe hand to obtain lantern-body; B, the wire guard or frame, eX- a better grip in turning the oil-pot. tending upwardly from the collar; C, the K represents the burner attached to the oilhinged top, and D the globe. pot and provided with a laterally-projecting E represents the detachable bottom, prowick-raiser shaft Z, which is provided at its 40 vided with the usual annular flange e, which outer end with a star-wheel or toothed button surrounds the collar of the body. This flange m. The latter is located within the lower poris provided on diametrically-opposite sides tion of the globe when the oil-pot is in posiwith outwardly-extending loops or embaytion in the lantern. ments F, and each of these loops is provided N represents an upright stop-arm, which is 5 with a horizontal slot f, extending circumfersecured with its lower end to the inner side of 5 entially into the flange c a suitable distance. the collar A, and extends upwardly on the in- The collar of the lantern-body is provided ner side of the globe to the vicinity of the on diametrically-opposite sides withtwo latbutton m, where it terminates with a number erally-projecting pins g, which are adapted to of inwardlyprojecting teeth n, which are 50 enter the loops of the flange and the slots in adapted to come in contact with the button and turn the same when the oil-pot is rotated within the lantern. The oil-pot is permanently attached to the bottom and the latter is required to be removed from the lanternbody for filling the oil-pot, trimming the wick, &c., and as the bottom is secured to the body by a reliable fastening the oil-pot is securely attached to the lantern and not liable to become accidentally detached. The oil-pot can be freely rotated in the bottom for adj listing the wick by means of the wick-raiser attachment.

1 claim as my invention 1. The combination, with a lantern-frame and a detachable bottom secured to the lantern-frame by a releasable fastening, of an oilpot permanently attached to said bottom and capable of rotative movement therein, a burner provided with a laterally-projecting wickraiser shaft, and a stop-arm attached to the lantern-frame and adapted to come in contact with the button of the wick-raiser shaft, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with thelantern-frame and a detachable bottom secured to the lantern-frame by a releasable fastening, of an oil-pot capable of rotative movement therein and provided with beads or projections above and below the said bottom, a burner provided with a laterally-projecting wick-raiser shaft, and a stop-arm attached to thelantern-frame and adapted to come in contact with the button of the wick-raiser shaft, substantially as set forth.

\Vitness my hand this 30th day of J an nary, 1892.

FREDERICK K. YVRIGHT. Witnesses:

FRANK (3. CRowELL, O. L. SALMON. 

